This thesis aims to identify and understand the relations between the changes in labor and the recent global cycle of struggles. The shared understanding in the investigation is that from the 1980s, labor goes through a transformation without losing its centrality. However, it s worth mentioning, its centrality will be renewed by the transformation. Unlike the Fordist dynamics, which tended to exclude the worker s subjectivity in the production processes, the post-Fordist work requires the worker s subjective participation not only in the production. In other words, the worker participates through their capacity to create, imagine, intervene, but also in the circulation dynamics. Therefore, contemporary production happens, extrapolating the otherwise confined factory spaces, disseminating through the entire social fabric in a cooperation between networks and streets. In that context, the city turns into a space of production and valorization of labor. In face of life and work conditions in the city, increasingly precarious, the city is also territory for struggles to improve life conditions and the city s democratic administration. Hinged to global movements, the Brazilian uprising of June, 2013 established itself as a deviation from the thesis that impels us to investigate the association that the protests claiming for rights allow us to establish with the issues regarding metropolitan labor. Methodologically speaking, receiving the deviation refers to the construction of a thought that feeds from the encounter with the world and, in that sense, it questions artificial continuities. That methodological choice makes this research an inventive practice that requires an effort to conceive other forms to think the ways and means to research. More than a simple instrument, the method is a research matter. Therefore, while in theory the investigation revolves around labor and right issues, extending to the issues of city life, methodologically speaking, the thesis deals with the very way of presenting the knowledge produced, searching for a method that does justice to it.